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Teaching Patriotism · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We had a question for American mamas. Dear mama, is
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  Speaker 1: how important is teaching patriotism in school to y'all?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mammas, Alma, Mama.
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  Speaker 1: And Jining is Now are American mamas Terry Neediville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burlison? You know, when I think of this question,
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  Speaker 1: I think back to Ronald Reagan's farewell address in January
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen, nineteen eighty nine, and he was sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office and he said, patriotism is not passed
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  Speaker 1: down in the bloodstream. It must be fought for and
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  Speaker 1: handed down to the next generation to do the same.
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  Speaker 1: He said, are we doing enough to teach our kids
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  Speaker 1: what America is and what she stands for in the
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  Speaker 1: long history of the world. I believe Reagan thought teaching
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  Speaker 1: patriotism was very important, since that was the last thing
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  Speaker 1: he told the American people. Is it still as important today?
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  Speaker 3: I think it is crucial. I think that when you
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  Speaker 3: don't teach patriotism, the chances of sabotage later is imminent,
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  Speaker 3: because if you don't feel something about your country, you
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  Speaker 3: can so self rationalize doing something negatively or that only
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  Speaker 3: benefits you. So I feel like we need to get
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  Speaker 3: into our schools. This needs to start right now where
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  Speaker 3: it is taught. It is we are. One of my
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  Speaker 3: favorite teachers in school is my history teacher. He came
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  Speaker 3: in in costume. If he was teaching about something, he
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  Speaker 3: was in costume, and he was so passionate about it
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  Speaker 3: that I found my love of history because of him,
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  Speaker 3: my love of country because of him. And so I
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  Speaker 3: feel like this needs to come back as a absolute
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  Speaker 3: thing that needs to happen, like crucial, crucial, crucial.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we grew up in a time where over the
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  Speaker 4: intercom we all said the Pledge of allegiance. Don't you
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  Speaker 4: all remember that you stood up and put your hand
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  Speaker 4: on your heart. You knew the pledge of allegiance. My
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  Speaker 4: kids grew up at Southfield where they did the same thing,
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  Speaker 4: and then they would sing the Grand Old Flag. So
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  Speaker 4: it was foreign to me when this was something that
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  Speaker 4: was cut out of the schools and racent here's the ledge,
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't like it. And I thought, we're the
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  Speaker 4: only country that does not teach pride in your country
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  Speaker 4: the way that others. I mean, oh yeah, even on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I want to come back to that pledge
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  Speaker 1: of allegiance because you pledge allegiance to the flag and
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  Speaker 1: to the republic for which it stands. Not only do
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  Speaker 1: we not have the patriotism, I don't think we actually
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  Speaker 1: have enough of an understanding of what the republic actually is.
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  Speaker 1: So even if we're pledging allegiance to the flag, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think kids understand what you're actually pledging allegiance to anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Which is why I advocate now what should be recited
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  Speaker 1: by every single child, every single morning, in every single
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  Speaker 1: school in the United States of America is the second
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  Speaker 1: sentence of the Decoration of Independence. We should have our
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  Speaker 1: kids stand up and say, we hold these truths to
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  Speaker 1: be self evident, that all men are created equal. Go
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  Speaker 1: through the entire second sentence, don't stop at the dash,
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  Speaker 1: keep going on through. They should have to recite that
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  Speaker 1: every single day because if you believe that sentence, you
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  Speaker 1: will love this country. Period.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: It needs to happen. It needs to happen. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's coming back.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it's going to take people like hearing
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  Speaker 3: something like this and a teacher, you know right now,
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  Speaker 3: teachers are they can they mold our children they're so
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  Speaker 3: crucial to our children. It takes that one teacher that
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  Speaker 3: decides to do that in the classroom and then it
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  Speaker 3: becomes an infectious thing. It's so my children went to
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  Speaker 3: a private school where it was very patriotic. You know,
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  Speaker 3: if the Olympics were going on, they were going to
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  Speaker 3: represent a country and hold the flag. If the election
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  Speaker 3: was going on, they learned what every part of the country,
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  Speaker 3: what we do to make a country run. It's like
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  Speaker 3: that needs to happen in public schools, not just private.
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  Speaker 4: You know, here's another thing. They need to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that they make being a patriot cool again. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 4: if you think about it, for the last four years
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  Speaker 4: or even six years, eight years, there was a faction
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  Speaker 4: of our country, and especially in the public schools, where
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  Speaker 4: not only was it not cool to be a patriot
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  Speaker 4: and love your flag, you were kind of demonized. You
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  Speaker 4: were kind of canceled. You couldn't even wear you couldn't
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  Speaker 4: walk around with the flag. You could walk around with
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  Speaker 4: the LGBTQ flag, but you couldn't walk around with your
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  Speaker 4: American flag. So it's been demonized. So it needs to
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  Speaker 4: be cool again where people aren't afraid to put their
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  Speaker 4: flags out.
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  Speaker 3: Remember it felt like it was an objective. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: kind of felt like it came from the top, like
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  Speaker 3: this was the whole reason for it, so that maybe
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  Speaker 3: you would sabotage the country. I mean, it seems like
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  Speaker 3: there's an evil element to this. And we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: how wokeism seems to be dying right now, like it
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  Speaker 3: seems like a rising up. It's like a phoenix. We
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  Speaker 3: are rising right now. So now's the time to take
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  Speaker 3: the steak back into our children and change things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people were wearing Maga hats in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people start wearing Maga hats and people would,
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  Speaker 1: you know, make America great again, and people would come out.
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  Speaker 1: Even the Hillary Clinton campaign was like America never was great. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that was the statement was made. And about that time
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  Speaker 1: I went over to France and I went to some
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  Speaker 1: of the cemeteries, the World War Two cemeteries, and those
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  Speaker 1: those cemeteries in France were American soldiers. American servicemen are
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  Speaker 1: buried that is technically American soil. And there was a
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  Speaker 1: plaque out on one of them at a Normandy and
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  Speaker 1: it had a snippet from the speech that Harry Truman
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  Speaker 1: gave President Truman gave. He said, we were willing to
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  Speaker 1: come and sacrifice our blood in our treasure, and all
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  Speaker 1: we asked in return was enough ground to bury our dead.
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  Speaker 1: Name another country where they were willing to sacrifice so
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  Speaker 1: much and all they asked for in return was just
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  Speaker 1: enough land to bury our dead. Wouldn't that make you
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  Speaker 1: proud of your country? Oh my gosh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well what made me proud the other night of a
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  Speaker 4: day during the Army Navy game when you saw President
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  Speaker 4: Trump saluting yes, and you saw J. D. Vance and
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  Speaker 4: Elon Musk with their hands on their heart. It's finally
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  Speaker 4: we feel free to be able to be patriotic again.
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  Speaker 4: It's a beautiful feeling.
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  Speaker 1: bre listen. Thank you so much much.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you